Like Ewan McGregor talks about in his "Long Way Down" DVD... I don't care about facts and figures too much... I don't care about the particulars of "what happened when" that awful much... what I want is to breathe in a land, hear its people talk about it... I want to come to know the personality, the spirit, of a land... not just compile a list of the Tourist Traps I notched on my Travelers Belt

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

REMOVE A TICK

Remove a Tick Feb 11, '07 5:37 PM

HERE IS A GREAT WAY TO REMOVE TICKS. It was used here in the campground this morning on a little girl. Don't know where the tick was, mother didn't know how to explain it. But it did work and with NO TEARS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Please forward to anyone with children... or hunters or dogs, etc!! A School Nurse has written the info below -- good enough to share --And it really works!! I had a pediatrician tell me what she believes is the bestway to remove a tick. This is great , because it works in those places whereit's some times difficult to get to with tweezers: between toes, in the middle ]of a head full of dark hair, etc. Apply a glob of liquid soap to a cotton ball. Cover the tickwith the soap-soaked cotton ball and swab it for a few seconds (15-20), thetick will come out on it's own and be stuck to the cotton ball when you lift it away.This technique has worked every time I've used it (and that wasfrequently), and it's much less traumatic for the patient and easier for me.Unless someone is allergic to soap, I can't see that this would be damaging in any way. I even had my doctor's wife call me for advice becauseshe had one stuck to her back and she couldn't reach it with tweezers. She usedthis method and immediately called me back to say, "It worked!"